Preface: common ground, common good / Amy Gutmann
Introduction: urban greening and the green city ideal / Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
Greening at every scale: nation to roof tops
Taking the initiative: why cities are greening now / Tom Daniels
Growing greener regions / Robert D. Yaro and David M. Kooris
The inter-regional dimension: the greening of London and the wider South East / Robin Thompson
Greening cities: a public realm approach / Alexander Garvin
Growing greener, New York style / Rachel Weinberger
Greener homes, greener cities: expanding affordable housing and strengthening cities through sustainable residential development / Stockton Williams and Dana L. Bourland
Getting greening done
Urban stream restoration: recovering ecological services in degraded watersheds / Rutherford H. Platt ... [et al.]
The role of citizen activists in urban infrastructure development / Paul R. Brown
Blue-green practices: why they work and why they have been so difficult to implement through public policy / Charlie Miller
The roots of the urban greening movement / Victor Rubin
Leveraging media for social change / Harry Wiland and Dale Bell
Transformation through greening / J. Blaine Bonham, Jr., and Patricia L. Smith
Community development finance and the green city / Jeremy Nowak
Growing edible cities / Domenic Vitiello
Measuring urban greening
Ecosystem services and the green city / Dennis D. Hirsch
Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. Wolf
Green investment strategies: how they matter for urban neighborhoods / Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown
Measuring the economic impacts of greening: the center for neighborhood technology green values calculator / Julia Kennedy, Peter Haas, and Bill Eyring
What makes today's green city? / Warren Karlenzig
Afterword / Neal Peirce
List of contributors.